Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
1710 - Born in Jesi on the 4th of January.
1725 - He studied music under Francesco Santini there before going to Naples where he studied under Gaetano Greco among others.
1731 - His first opera La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo.
1733 - His opera seria Il prigioner superbo contained the two act buffa intermezzo, La Serva Padrona, which became a very popular work in its own right.
1736 - Pergolesi also wrote sacred music, including a Mass in F. It is his Stabat Mater, however, for male soprano, male alto and orchestra, which is his best known sacred work.
- Died on the 16th of March at the age of twenty-six in Pozzuoli from tuberculosis.
1725 - He studied music under Francesco Santini there before going to Naples where he studied under Gaetano Greco among others.
1731 - His first opera La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo.
1733 - His opera seria Il prigioner superbo contained the two act buffa intermezzo, La Serva Padrona, which became a very popular work in its own right.
1736 - Pergolesi also wrote sacred music, including a Mass in F. It is his Stabat Mater, however, for male soprano, male alto and orchestra, which is his best known sacred work.
- Died on the 16th of March at the age of twenty-six in Pozzuoli from tuberculosis.
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